Top 5 Benefits of Managed Next Generation Firewall Services

Benefits of Next Generation Firewall Service

What is Next Generation Firewall? ✔Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) can be described as the firewall which adds protective layers. ✔NGFW is an upgrade to the traditional firewall ✔Crucially, they go beyond the static inspection that traditional firewalls are limited to, instead having application-level control.

Benefit #1: Gain User Identification ✔NGFWs can link IP addresses to specific user identities, enabling visibility and control of network activity on a per-user basis. ✔This gains visibility into who specifically is responsible for all application, content, and threat traffic on the network

Benefit #2: Multi-Layered Protection ✔A traditional firewall can block access through ports (single layer protection), which proves insignificant in the complex and evolving landscape of data architecture. ✔Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) offers multi-layered protection by inspecting traffic from layer 2 to layer 7 and at the same time understanding the exact nature of data transfer.

Benefit #3: Content Identification ✔Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) NGFWs can scan content to prevent data leakage and stop threats with detailed, real-time traffic inspection. ✔This content identification includes Threat prevention, URL filtering and file and data filtering.

Benefit #4: NGFWs are Multi Functional Functionalities of Traditional firewalls Traditional firewalls provide basic packet filtering, network and port address translations, stateful inspections, and can even support virtual private networks.

However, they are only limited to the Data Link Layer and Transport Layer of the OSI model.

Functionalities of Next Generation Firewall In addition to all the functionalities of traditional firewalls, next-generation firewalls also include integrated intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion protection systems (IPS) that detect attacks based on traffic behavioral analysis, threat signatures or anomalous activity.

This functionality helps perform deeper inspection and improve packet-content filtering of network traffic up to the application layer.

Benefit #5: Application Awareness In Traditional firewalls Traditional firewalls typically block common application ports or services on a network to control application access and monitor specific threats.

However, with network connectivity becoming more complex, several applications use multiple or various ports, making it extremely difficult for traditional firewalls to identify the targeted port.

In Next Generation Firewall Next-generation firewall devices monitor traffic from layer 2 through layer 7 and are intelligent enough to determine what exactly is being sent or received. If the content is within policy, it is sent further or else it's blocked.

Application awareness also enables companies to set policies depending on the user and the application. For instance, allowing users to access Facebook, but blocking Facebook Chats.

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24x7 SafeAeon Firewall Steady State Management Service Components of the SafeAeon Firewall Management as a service

• Hardware Health Monitoring and Alerting of in scope devices.

• Policy Provisioning: Day to Day Firewall Changes.

• Incident Handling (Any issues with firewall configurations. Work with support to address any Software or Hardware issues) • Maintain the Currency including hotfixes, upgrades, and signature updates.

• Tweaking device Configurations / Troubleshooting any connectivity issues through firewalls.

• Maintain currency of firewall operating system and features as subscribed including VPN, User-ID, App-ID, Global Protect, URL filtering.

• Responsible to work with product support team to coordinate any RMA and issues.

• Backup and Restore of Firewall Configurations with Daily/Weekly backup.

• Restore the RMA Device configurations and bring it to operational in the event of hardware / software fault.

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